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Inside Today Classifieds 7,8 Comics 8 Eagles win Faculty nicknames: What Features 3 News 2 Opinions 4 two at home you always wanted to know See Stories, page 5 Sports 5,6 See Story, page 3 Liked By Many, Cussed By Some, Geor Anne « 9127681-5246 Vol. 63, No. 33 • Tuesday, March 5 1991 Since 1927. Georgia Southern's Official Student Newspaper Georgia Southern University • Statesboro, GA 30460 News Briefs Student directories to be avertible this month ©Copyright 1991. USA TODAY/Apple ollege Information Network This year may be last year for directories because of contract disputes, selling of names contract that was signed nearly cooperate." Clark said. "Without By David G. Berny publishing company. It normally five years ago, we must fulfill our a copy, we could not negotiate." Staff Writer off of ads that they place in the takes three weeks for the agreement." said Vice President Much of the dispute was due to directories as well. publishing company to assemble The new student directories of Auxiliary Affairs Chris fact that the publishing company IRAQIS ACCEPT DEFEAT However, the directories the information, print the will be available early this Clark. that the SGA sends the names and The Iraqi military, in a require no investment by SGA directories, and ship them to month. In recent years, the Clark states, "We will not con- meeting in Iraq with U.S. Gen. addresses of the students to, sells and they are available for all GSU Norman Schwarzkopf, formally directories have been available tinue to do business with the the list to clearing houses for an students and faculty members at by December, but due to a accepted defeat in the Persian present firm and we have no exorbitant amount of money. no cost. One positive ramification of contractual dispute with the pub- plans as of yet to continue the Gulf war Sunday, bowing to all According to Clack, "They SGA received the the list the delay is that more of the lishing company, the completion publication" demands for a permanent cease- make a fortune from selling containing the names, numbers and addresses should be date has been delayed. Delays resolving the contract fire. Iraq agreed to release or these lists. All of the junk mail addresses, phone numbers, and correct since it is late in the year, "Originally, the Student dispute were prolonged because account for allied POWs; that students and faculty Landrum Bow numbers of the and by this time, students will Government Association was not the publishing company would disclose the locations of land and members receive are a result of students from the registrars have registered twice and have going to organize the directory for not send the SGA a copy of the sea mines; and release all using these lists for reasons other office two weeks ago and has hopefully corrected their phone GSU, but since we are bound by a contract. "They refused to captured civilians, including than as a directory." forwarded the list to the numbers and addresses. about 40,000 Kuwaitis believed kidnapped. POWS COULD HEAD HOME Some U.S. prisoners of war The LRC: Things you should know could be out of Iraq as early as which a lot of students are not Monday after a signal Sunday familiar with. "To solve this from the Iraqis. Iraq's U.N. By TREY DECKER problem," says Winfrey, " Is to Ambassador Abdul Amir Anbari Staff writer know the procedure of saving and said 10 allied POWs, including retrieving." six Americans - one a woman - If you have a paper due tomor- According to Winfrey, many were already released. Iraq is row and haven't even started on it, students do not do what they are known to have held 13 allied told when they ask for help, forc- POWs, including nine Henderson Library's Learning Resources Center can be your best ing the CAs to come to their com- Americans, two Britons, an puter. "A lot of the students don't friend. Italian and a Kuwaiti. All the even watch how the CAs work with POWs listed are men. There are, however, a few things that students should under- the computers and this just leads to more trouble in the future," she UNITED CRASH KILLS 25 stand about the center concerning "The students," says Coleman, says. A United Airlines jet its services. "Don't want to take the time to Winfrey has constructed a list slammed into the ground "Most of the students come in familiarize themselves with the that she advises students to follow Sunday, just missing a here totally unprepared and un- programs and basic features of the so as to reduce commotion when residential area. All 25 on board familiar with the equipment," computer and end up having ma- deadlines are near. First, she ad- died. The Boeing 737 - which says Sue Winfrey, staff assistant, jor problems when they rush in to vises that students follow a CA's originated in Peoria, 111., and "they expect the CAs (Computer as- do a paper." suggestions promptly. was en route from Denver to sistant) to be at their every need." Coleman advises students not to She also advocates bringing a Colorado Springs - disintegrated. Winfrey suggests that the stu- wait until the last minute to do 3.5 or 5.0 disk to save their work Flight 585 appeared on a normal dents enter a computer introduc- their LRC computer work. When instead of expecting to save it to the approach to Colorado Springs tion course or read some of the free students procrastinate, Coleman system. If too many students put Municipal Airport before it brochures that are given out in the explains, the results are often dis- their stuff on the systems disk, the veered sharply. "It went center. astrous. system gets full and may required vertically into the ground," said a "Most of them, just stroll up to "The main problems that arise to be shut down. witness. the counter and ask the CA's to get in the LRC, are printer related, Finally, she asks that students them all prepared," said Winfrey. and can often be credited to stu- CYCLING OFFICIALS ON BOARD try to solve problems themselves "We're not going to do [the stu- dents," said Winfrey. LRC per- before coming to a computer assis- Two members of the U.S. dents] work for them and that's sonnel suggest that students not tant. She says that this does not Olympic Committe and a U.S. what a lot of them think, says rip the paper- out of the printer, mean that computer assistants do Just tryin' to get a bite Cycling Federation development Danny Coleman, another CA. which causes it to jam up in the coach and coordinator were on not want to help students, it means Billy Carter, GSU Freshman, shows that you don't have to "We are here to help them help printer. board the United flight 585 that that it is better for the student to try go far away to do a little fishing. It seems like Henderson themselves and not to do every- Another problem that occurs in crashed near Colorado Springs, Lake has something for everyone. (Photo by Clint Home) thing for them." the LRC is the saving procedure, See LRC, page 8 home of the U.S. Olympic Training Center, Sunday. Olympics officials Peter J. Van Handel, 45, and Andrzej Komor, Education Dept. calls for cover-up 39, were killed, as was Dan Birkholz, with the cycling By PAT ORDOVENSKY federation. and CLAUDE BURGETT James Madison University in Other colleges were not noti- ©Copyright 1991, USA TODAY/Apple Harrisonburg, Va., has stopped fied, says the department's Etta. USA FORGIVES JORDAN College Information Network releasing names, even though a Fielek, because it doesn't go look- ing for violations. Secretary of State James Colleges have been told to stop state law requires they be made But Mark Goodman of the Stu- Baker said the USA "certainly releasing names of students public. But at the University of Geor- dent Press Law Center sees a dou- could, and we have" forgiven charged with crimes or risk losing gia, "If we charge someone with a ble standard: "One foot off-cam- Jordan, which at first was said to federal aid. crime, we say so," says police pus, it's public information. ... be neutral in the gulf war before USA TODAY has learned the One foot on-campus, it's protected siding with Iraq. Baker said Education Department has told 14 chief Asa Boynton. The 14 colleges were listed in a by federal law." King Hussein "may become a colleges that identifying students recent Missouri court case as rou- A new federal law requires very important player" in peace in crime reports violates federal colleges to disclose crime statistics efforts. Crown Prince Hassan, Last Wednesday, Pi Sigma Epsilon and Apple Co. sponsored privacy laws and "jeopardizes" tinely identifying students charged with crimes.